Student Exchange Programmes
The University of Edinburgh is involved in a number of international
exchange schemes, details of which can be found on the
Exchanges
Homepage of the
International Office.
Assessment
Students spending a year abroad are expected to take courses that
correspond reasonably closely to the courses they would have taken in
Edinburgh, both in terms of content and credit weighting (e.g. 60
European Credit Transfer Scheme points correspond to 120 Edinburgh
University points). Because of the difficulty of mapping an overseas
mark to an Edinburgh mark, the Senatus has ruled that students will be
allocated the appropriate credits for the period spent abroad but that
these will be zero-weighted in terms of the final degree
classification (unless the period abroad is a requirement of the
course). So for students in Informatics who spend their third year
abroad, their degree results will be based on their final year marks
only. However, in the case of a borderline mark, the Board of
Examiners could use the third year transcript to inform its decision.
School of Informatics Exchanges
The School of Informatics encourages students to consider the
possibility of spending one year of their undergraduate degree course
(typically the third) at a university in another country. Many
exchanges are also open to MSc and PhD students students. In this case
the student would work with a supervisor at the host institution
abroad and on research for their MSc or PhD thesis.
More information about the student exchanges that Informatics takes
part in can be found here:
If you have questions about these exchanges, please email email the
School Erasmus Coordinator, Aris
Efthymiou.
International Exchanges
The University also has exchanges with universities outside Europe
(including North America and Asia). The
International Office
provides more information, including a
List
of all International Exchanges. Please note that these links are
not specific to Informatics. They are open to students from all
disciplines and are managed centrally by the University.
Degree Programmes Involving Time Abroad
The School of Informatics also participates in the following
programmes, which are not exchanges, but degree programmes with an
integrated stay abroad:
To find out more about these programmes, please follow the links or
email the people specified on the relevant web pages.
